Thursday Mar 21, 2013

As we look forward in 2013, we look at
the key trends driving the IT transformation today. Surely, mobile, social and
cloud would top the list. With the proliferation of mobile devices companies
are looking to offer access to the most commonly used (or user facing) business
applications on users’ personal mobile devices. The spread of social networking
is forcing organizations to allow users to access company resources using their
social media sign-ons. And regardless of whether it is in a datacenter or in
the cloud, the business application needs to be just as secure and reliable.

Customers today are demanding a seamless online
experience, one that is geography agnostic. But most applications that are
required to support this seamless digital experience were architected 10 or 20
years ago and are not scalable or agile enough. Worse, the applications still keep
user experience and security at cross-hairs; you inevitably compromise on one
or the other.

The applications for today and tomorrow will need to
support the internet scale, offer a seamless user experience across all
channels and yet be secure to enable a digital interaction with confidence.
Which means, a re-architecture that adopts SOA for flexibility, BPM for collaboration
and participation, a scalable user portal and Big Data for better business
analytics and Fast data for the massive scale that will be required and a
Security Inside Out approach. To learn more about how each of the Fusion
Middleware components fit into a social, mobile, cloud strategy, we recommend
you peruse all the videos and assets for The New Business Imperative: Social,
Mobile, Cloud screencast program here.

In our previous posts, we talked about the essentials for
Securing the New Digital Experience and
how Oracle has adopted a platform approach to provide a solid foundation
to enable a secure, seamless digital experience. If you missed our screencast, you can watch it now.

We wanted to share with you, some customer
experiences. Industry leading organizations have adopted the platform approach
to Identity management and have started to leverage the capabilities of our
latest release, Identity Management 11gR2 to enable secure mobile and social
access. Companies, like SaskTel, are offering Identity Management in the cloud
to some of the most security-conscious organizations.

SuperValu, for example, is leveraging Identity Management
to bolster employee productivity in their stores by delivering secure,
simplified sign-on for store managers on iPads.

And Oracle itself is using Oracle Identity Management
internally to offer a centralized, single identity system, a simplified identity
context to its employees across a myriad of applications the employees have
(and need) access to. Managing a dynamic workforce across geographies, folding
in M&As, leveraging Identity Management to power the cloud services –
Oracle Identity Management within Oracle is another good example of the success
of a platform approach to identity management and security. Catch this podcast
to get the full Oracle on Oracle story.